In recent years, the call of civil society organizations to formalize rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples to forests has been growing louder. They argue that formalizing local forest rights will have positive outcomes for livelihoods as well as forest conservation. In response to…
Te Tiriti o Waitangi, signed between Māori rangatira (chiefs) and the British Crown in 1840 guaranteed to Māori the ‘full, exclusive and undisturbed possession of their lands’. In the decades that followed, Māori were systematically dispossessed of all but a fraction of their land through a…
The negative impact of the reduction of vegetation cover is already being felt in the Zambezi Region in northeastern Namibia. The region has been undergoing various land cover changes in the past decades. To understand the historical trend of vegetation cover (increase or decrease), we analyzed…
The use of land consolidation on customary lands has been limited, though land fragmentation persists. Land fragmentation on customary lands has two main causes—the nature of the customary land tenure system, and the somewhat linked agricultural system. Since attempts to increase food…
Intensification of rainfed agriculture in the Ethiopian highlands has resulted in soil degradation and hardpan formation, which has reduced rooting depth, decreased deep percolation, and increased direct runoff and sediment transport. The main objective of this study was to assess the potential…
Based on research into the theory of household assets and the welfare of farmers, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)-entropy weight method and cloud model were used to study the welfare level of land-lost farmers’ households under the different livelihood assets of Taohuayi Village, Taohuasan…
<strong><em>More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) in 2018. This report illustrates in stark terms the hunger caused by conflict and insecurity, climate shocks and…
Presentation about data entry on the online form of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) option by context. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week" In Tunis,…
Presentation on Geoinformatic Options-by-Context (GeOC) for Sustainable Land Management toward achvieving Land Degradation Neutrality - Introductory remarks. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics…
Presentation on Geoinformatic Options-by-Context (GeOC) for Sustainable Land Management toward achvieving Land Degradation Neutrality - Introductory remarks. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics…
Presentation about WOCAT, its approach and functionalities. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week" In Tunis, Tunisia (1-7 November, 2019).
Overview of Geoinformatic Options-by-Context (GeOC) Framework and Tools for Supporting SLM Targeting and Outscaling. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week"…